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TECHNOLOGIES FOR EFFECTIVE FACILITY MANAGEMENT
TECHNOLOGIES FOR EFFECTIVE FACILITY MANAGEMENT
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Facilities management technology drivers in the private and public sectors; The state of the technology today (including the growing importance of the InterIlet and organizations' own "intranets") for facility management; Some case studies.
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The organizations often lack technical expertise in house, leading to outsourcing or facility management groups becoming cost centers in their own right and charging services back to business units. In outsourcing facility functions' facility management staffs need greater project management and contract management skills.
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The CAFM vendors provide the integration tools and the data management tools such that there is no data duplication among applications. Additional tools permit facility data to be linked to other organizational databases, such as human resource data (for occupancy!
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The outsourcing space planning company had to use space planning forecasting tools and maintain occupancy and space databases on a worldwide basis. Individuals from the outsourcing company staffed the project with none located inside the manufacturing company.
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Automation of this process requires professionals to visit the buildings with laptop computers to record deficiencies and priorities associated with the deficiencies. Databases of repair costs and CAD drawings for recording locational information enable a variety of reports to be generated that aid both facility and corporate managers in making intelligent decisions regarding risk assessment and investment in the building.
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Groupware products such as Lotus Notes handle forms processing, automatic routing, revision and document control, data integration of different systems, database access, and a variety of issues associated with quality control. Groupware often has the ability to employ technologies such as the Internet for electronic mail and network management, multimedia (for images)
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For a successful transition to automation, management must be involved at all levels. Careful strategic planning must assess the intended benefits and the expected organizational impacts of automation.
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